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November 18, 2010 By Meg Waite Clayton

And the Winners of the National Book Awards Are …

The National Book Award ceremonies were last night. Did you watch them? They don’t have the audience of the Oscars or the Emmies, but at least in this internet world you could follow the progress online, and now view the tape (or stream, I suppose it is these days).
In the fiction category, Jaimy Gordon’s Lord of Misrule won in a field of three women and two men.
In non-fiction, Patti Smith’s Just Kids won … in a field of three women and two men.
In children’s literature, Kathryn Erskine’s Mockingbird won in a field of … you’ve guessed it, haven’t you?
And it poetry, in a field of … yes, this trend continues: three women and two men! But Terrance Hayes’s Lighthead won.
Well, I guess women can’t win them all! (And I’m not going to look back to see how many years men won them all. Really, I’m not!)
More details on the National Book Award Website, as well as the stream of the ceremony. And if you listen to NPR this morning, you can hear a lovely snippet of Patti Smith, a rock star who is overwhelmed with emotion at having won the National Book Award, even if it doesn’t have the rating share of the Grammy Ceremony. Or even a Neilson share of any sort. – Meg

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Meg Waite Clayton

Meg Waite Clayton is a New York Times and internationally bestselling author of THE LAST TRAIN TO LONDON, a Jewish Book Award finalist based on the true story of the Kindertransport rescue of ten thousand children from Nazi-occupied Europe—and one brave woman who helped them escape. Her six prior novels include the Langum-Prize honored The Race for Paris and The Wednesday Sisters, one of Entertainment Weekly's 25 Essential Best Friend Novels of all time. A graduate of the University of Michigan and its law school, she has also written for the Los Angeles Times, The New York Times, The Washington Post, The San Francisco Chronicle, Forbes, Runners World, and public radio, often on the subject of the particular challenges women face. megwaiteclayton.com

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